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CAROLINER  Recycled Music  CASSETTE   (RRRecords)   4.98
Recycled Music IS CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE FOR ORDER

This just came in with the latest batch of Recycled Music Series cassettes from RRRecords - a Recycled tape from the legendary San Francisco avant-industrial-bluegrass collective Caroliner! But what the fuck is this? The first side of the tape gets rolling with a murky, damaged pop song that sounds mutated by tape hiss and delay, but then proceeds into a series of renditions of the old 1940's cowboy song "Cool Water", which'll be immediately recognizeable to anyone that's ever heard this old-school country/western staple before. I recognized the Marty Robbins and Tom Jones versions, and there's countless other musicians on here, one after the other, each contributing to an endless stream of renditions of "Cool Water", over and over and over. There's some vocal/tape delay weirdness that pops up at the end of side two, along with some spoken word stuff that we couldn't place, but it's an afterthought to the eternity of "Cool Water" that precedes it. We gotta think that this is either some kind of conceptual prank, or a Caroliner-sanctioned mix tape of what might be one of their favorite cowboy songs. Or some demented combination of the two. In any event, be warned! I've gotta admit, the song starts to take on a macabre hue after you've listened to it, like, 20 twenty times in a row, but anyone that picks this up looking for original Caroliner music is likely going to be disappointed. Pretty essential to hardcore fans of Caroliner's unique brand of outsider weirdness, though!